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Those Who Can Do More, Teach

Jejak Panda Kembali Bertemu Lagi Di Blog Ini, Silakan Membaca bandar ceme 99 When I was in graduate school at Humboldt State University, I used to read a comic strip in the San Francisco Examiner called Luann . It takes place in a junior/senior high school, and one recurring storyline in the strip involves funny banter that takes place in the faculty room. In one strip, a bespectacled male history teacher named Mr. Fogarty is talking with a guidance counselor named Miss Phelps, and he says, “I wish I could quit teaching and go write a novel.” Miss Phelps replies, “Ah, yes, the ‘frustrated teacher syndrome.’ The art teacher wants to be a great painter, the science teacher wants to do research ….” Mr. Fogarty interrupts Miss Phelps and says, “What’s Mrs. Thorpe want to do?” Miss Phelps replies, “Thorpe? What’s she teach?” Mr. Fogarty responds, “Sex Education.” In the Prologue to Teacher Man , Frank McCourt’s third memoir, McCourt writes, “In the